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Moving, PWIs, and making words

Packers came yesterday. (I say “packers,” what I mean is “one dude from HandyBook,” but still. He packed.) I also packed. We all packed. Except the cats, who, mysteriously, mostly stayed out of the way. So now my home for the last n years is filled with boxes, but not so much with my belongings. It’s strange, and I’m tired.

Professional packers are interesting. They pack things. I mean, all the things. They don’t stop and wonder if a pan lid that fits none of your pans should move cross-country, nor the 1/8th-full bottle of dish detergent; they just box it. He packed a good deal of stuff I wouldn’t have, but I bet it took him half the time.

I was reading Foodness Gracious – well, looking at the pretty pictures – and the author posted something about the writing in his blog, and wondering if it actually matters.* It so matters. I find that I only come back to blogs whose writing I think is entertaining, no matter the pretty pictures.

And this is as much a my-life blog as a nail polish blog (somehow that happened). So, I feel like I should have stuff to say? But I’m tired for so many reasons, and that’s the enemy of writing well. So here is some more nail polish, and with luck post-defense I will be less whiny (so whiny!) and more talky.

Same, only over some interesting silver stickers. The effect didn’t really work, the topper just kind of swallowed the sticker.

There are a lot of possible effects and finishes for nail polish. A lot. I’ll do a post sometime, probably soon. One of my favorites is “glass fleck.” I don’t know if it’s actually glass powder, just another shape/material of glitter, or what, but I like it.

So, this is a topper that’s basically just a bottle of glass fleck stuff in a clear base. I haven’t yet figured out how to make it as pretty as the bottle, but I’ll keep after it a bit.

I need to start doing bottle shots again.

* Which links back to here, which in turns links to someone tweeting something mind-bendingly dumb.

3 thoughts on “Moving, PWIs, and making words”

Maybe? It seems very, very transparent — there are certain angles where you can’t really see it at all, if it doesn’t catch the light. So glass powder is a possibility, as are tinytiny transparent glits made of plastic. Or mica?